Fundiewatch: a Catholic prenatal diagnosis “counselling service”
Two of our local Catholic hospital networks have collaborated to offer a new so-called “counselling service, dubbed “Mamreh”. These two hospitals combined have a lot of community credibility already, as they provide the vast majority of private-hospital maternity services in this State. Baby-catching (or baby-cutting-out, for over half the births in these hospitals) is big [...]
Smouldering: most Australians rape apologists
We’ve posted a bit about the mangy asshats who think that certain women and girls deserve to be raped – fat women, for example, or preteen girls who wear particular types of underwear. And we’ve posted about Nice Guy(tm) sexual entitlement, and the femiblogosphere has discussed and been subjected to comments from men who think [...]
Work/Life/Family Balance in NSW
On a day dominated by the media attempting to beat up a story about NSW Premier Morris Iemma taking time off to spend the school holidays with his young children, another story got hardly any traction. Both stories tie into Guest Hoyden Helen’s post from last week on the “Real World” of time-management around school [...]
They’re creepy and they’re … creepy. Three datapoints.
Via IBTP, buried in a long stoush about bigotry against children and whether under-18s are subhuman: To passer-by, crying child’s ear-piercing rings of abuse. Marilyn Johnson thought so when she heard a girl’s screams in a Wichita Wal-Mart on Sunday — and she reported it to police. [...] “This little girl was about 5 years [...]
“Only stupid women are breeding” – academipanic from New Zealand
Jim Flynn, Emeritus Professor of Political Studies at a New Zealand university, has pronounced himself the arbiter of which women should be allowed to breed. Note that fathers are completely invisible in his genetic-decay worldview, what could just as easily be an Onion article set in a parallel parthenogenetic society. The Stuff.co.nz article is here [...]
Lame jokes
I’m looking at you, Pavlov… Once there was a boy who had no arms, legs, or torso. In other words – he was a head. He used to roll to school, and roll home again. He was teased unmercifully, and the girl he had a crush on wouldn’t give him a second look. When a [...]
It’s not just the moustache
This guest post is by Helen on the Cast Iron Balcony. Aaaaaaargh! It’s (gag) happened! Elizabeth and the dweeby, creepy, moustached Anthony have finally realised that each other is their Only Trew Love, and they’re going at it like… well, as far as anyone can go at it in this agressively wholesome, goody two-shoes comic [...]
Grrrl’s own adventure
Guest post by blue milk (who knew there was so much to say on feminist motherhood?). I don’t usually read Janet Albrechtsen because I don’t find her relevant, but today I did and now I’m inflicting her on you. Sorry. I am a blogger, so I do tend to take some of my own experiences [...]
Blonde, bald, braided or baubled: hair as femininity object and transformative symbol
[image credit: Weekly Wire.] Noodling around the net, I found that hair has recently been a lively topic at the Girl-Wonder forums. This post by Mississippienne is titled “When you get old, lop off all your hair”: “My mother is 55 years old and she has long, long blonde hair down to her butt. All [...]
Whose real world?
Posted by Helen. Where I live, our kids have five weeks holidays from just before Christmas to the end of January. They have two weeks off in April, two in July, and two in September/October. I’ve run out of fingers, so that’s eleven weeks. A full-time employed adult will have four weeks annual [...]
Anytime, Anyplace, Anywhere
We’ve been running a bit of a series on repulsive advertising featuring women’s bodies: * the Nando’s stripper-mummy-with-a-heart-of-gold: Been trying to find the words * Pornified racist slavery in the pursuit of fashion: Because “fun “n’ edgy” and “pornification of slavery” are so easily confused. * The Brazilian low-fat yoghurt ads: Ads that make you [...]
Read ‘ems: Young Feminists edition
In today’s Read-’Ems, I’m taking a break from Aboriginal issues, and focusing on young feminists. Enjoy. 1. On the YP4 (“Young People For”) blog, ojgreer asks “Am I A Feminist?”, and details her feminist awakening from beginning: As a young white woman growing up in New York City, my world was comfortable, it was integrated, [...]
Are you in on the joke?
Guest post by blue milk (who knew there was so much to say on feminist motherhood?) where this is being cross-posted. Spare a thought for advertising executives. Imagine trying to write a TV advertisement for chicken? Actually wait it gets worse, the client wants you to write a TV ad that will have everyone talking [...]
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